how to copy a list of email contacts and paste them only as names (not names + email address)

You are copying from the message's To field?

What do you see in the body if you hit Reply or Forward?

ie, in the header block:

From: name [mailto:address]
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 6:15 PM
To: Diane; Can; Andrew
Subject: RE: now that you are back

You are copying from the message's To field?

What do you see in the body if you hit Reply or Forward?

ie, in the header block:

From:name [mailto:address]
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 6:15 PM
To: Diane; Can; Andrew
Subject: RE: now that you are back

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Yes, I am copying from the To field. My specific use case is I send an email to a certain group of people, and I put their names within the body saying "the following people were requesting such-and-such". So I enter everyone's names in the To field and earlier I was able to copy the entire list from the To field and paste it in the body and it was pasting only the names.

With Outlook 2010, it is pasting name <email>; name <email>

If you click on ‘To field’ it will select the name and email address. Try to double click on the address in ‘to’ field and copy only the name and then paste it in the new message window.

If you click on ‘To field’ it will select the name and email address. Try to double click on the address in ‘to’ field and copy only the name and then paste it in the new message window.

 

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Ganesh Kumar N

But I have several names in the To field. If I have to manually get the names, it will be too time-consuming. Why isn't there a Paste Special-type of functionality to paste name only or paste name+email?

In Outlook 2010, copying from the To field should include the display name and email address. In older versions, you need to get the display names/addresses from the message header.

See http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/create/dl.asp - use the first section to get the display name and addresses - or use this method to get the names and not the addresses.

Yes, I am copying from the To field. My specific use case is I send an email to a certain group of people, and I put their names within the body saying "the following people were requesting such-and-such". So I enter everyone's names in the To field and earlier I was able to copy the entire list from the To field and paste it in the body and it was pasting only the names.

With Outlook 2010, it is pasting name <email>; name <email>

Hit Forward or Reply  - you'll have a block like this in the body - copy and paste the names where ever you want:

Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 9:42 PM
To: Tony; Angela; Heather; Mary Mitchell; Janet (home); Frank & Jeni; Diane Poremsky;
Subject: New Address

Hi,

It is an annoying feature isn't it? My work around is this:

1. In the email window, click the To: button. The Select Names Global Address List dialog box opens.
2. Add all of the people you want to any of the fields.
3. Before clicking OK, copy the names from the desired field.

By copying the names from the To: field in the Select Names window, I am able to get just the names...no addresses...when I paste in the body of the email.

Hope it helps,

C.